A fundraising gig this weekend aims to address the issue of violence both in Illawarra music scene and the community.

The Safety Dance is an all-ages gig raising money for domestic violence services at Wollongong Women's Information Service.

It is also about raising awareness of the issue at music gigs, organiser Warren Wheeler said.

"Occasionally you might be at a show and in the crowd you might get someone who is a little bit energetic and wants to get the pit going and they start being a little bit aggressive," Wheeler says.

"I've been at shows where people have come up in my face and pushed me. I'm not going to respond to that but other people would respond in an aggressive manner and then you've got problems."

Wheeler said there have been instances of women being assaulted. "It's not unusual for girls to complain that they might have been groped in a big mosh pit because the perpetrator thinks they're anonymous, that no one can see what they're up to. That's just not on and if people at shows see that kind of behaviour or someone is a victim of that kind of behaviour it ought to be reported and it ought to be dealt with."

Wheeler organised the show after being inspired on several fronts.

He spoke with Bec Machine from Babymachine about trying to promote a safer kind of environment in our music scene and he watched The Punk Singer, a documentary about musician Kathleen Hanna and the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s.

"It got me thinking about young people in general and what they'd be exposed to at music shows," Wheeler says. "With my kids now at an age where they are going to shows, violence at shows was a topic of conversation around the dinner table sometimes.

"I just thought we could do something that kids could go to, that was safe and also promoted a longer-term message of keeping people safe at shows.

"People go to gigs to not have to worry about stuff - to let loose and shake off their worries," he says.

"The last thing they need is to be pushed around and bullied and harassed or in some instances sexually assaulted while they're trying to enjoy a rock show."

As well as the physical harm violence causes to the victim violence can make others and the scene itself feel unsafe.

"The music scene is a broad church, where you get people who are into it for the love of it," Wheeler says.

"You also get people who want to disrupt, who want to cause problems. That puts the whole scene at risk.

"People will be less likely to go to shows if they feel they're unsafe and venues will be less likely to put shows on if they feel that there's a history of violence at their events.

"It just undermines the whole music scene."